 ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than...  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Strana 3401822Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1752 - 196 str.
...refufcitation of .dcfires which he feels hiinfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs and vexation the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confoles himfelf with the hope of change. He that has made his way, by affiduity and vigilance, to... | |
 | 1785 - 596 str.
...continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfclf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confolcs himielf with the hope of change; if be has made his way by ailiduity to publick employment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 str.
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 str.
...is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined •within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecls, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfcU unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 str.
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that leldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 str.
...frequent is the neceflity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecb, and a. continual refufcitation of dcfires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | 1797 - 522 str.
...refufciiation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs and vexation the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confutes himfelf with the hope of change. He that has made his way by affiduity aad vigilance to public... | |
 | 1801 - 320 str.
...frequent is the neceffity oi refting below that perfeclion which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and and a. continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is... | |
 | 1806 - 420 str.
...frequent is the neceffity of. reding below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 str.
...struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting bdow that perfection, which we imagined within our reach, that...painful conviction of his defects, and a continual resusDD 2 citation citation of desires, which he feels himself unable to gratify." But he who declines... | |
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